[Footnote 4: 'for a special reason'.]
[Footnote 5: Study is still the Player's word for commit to memory.]
[Footnote 6: Note Hamlet's quick resolve, made clearer towards the end of the following soliloquy.]
[Footnote 7: Polonius is waiting at the door: this is intended for his hearing.]
[Footnote 8: Not in Q.]
[Footnote 9: Note the varying forms of God be with you.]
[Footnote 10: 1st Q.
Why what a dunghill idiote slaue am I?
Why these Players here draw water from eyes:
For Hecuba, why what is Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba?]
[Footnote 11: Everything rings on the one hard, fixed idea that possesses him; but this one idea has many sides. Of late he has been thinking more upon the woman-side of it; but the Player with his speech has brought his father to his memory, and he feels he has been forgetting him: the rage of the actor recalls his own 'cue for passion.' Always more ready to blame than justify himself, he feels as if he ought to have done more, and so falls to abusing himself.]
[Footnote 12: imagination.]